How to Survive the Death of Your Old Self - Charlie Houpert - #1063

You're in a very different place now to when you started doing your thing online. What's the unifying thread? Is there one between sort of all of this stuff or do you see it as different Charlies? How do you come to sort of construct the narrative of what your interests have been and your your personal growth over the last decade and a bit? Sure.

The terror was in not having a thread. So there was a time about three years ago where I could not form a story that connected who I had been in my 20s to who I was becoming in my 30s. And I was thinking about this. I've heard you talk about the lonely chapter, where you go from, I'm just blending in to I'm going to take control of my life and I'm going to dial in these optimizing things.

I'm going to start my business, get in shape, eat the right food, et cetera. I've, I discovered a second lonely chapter, which is when you, you bottom out on the optimizing thing and your friends are still very much in that optimized zone. And I did not know where to go, but I just knew that it wasn't working. Wow. So the common thread for me was that there was this problem in my life that started with, I'm too shy, nobody wants to talk to me.

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